Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
Date	2017-03-22 15:40 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 06:22:16AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> But admittedly we can replace all these by standard refcount_inc() and
> simply provide a CONFIG option to turn off the checks, and let brave
> people enable this option.

Still brings us back to lacking a real reason to provide that CONFIG
option. Not to mention that this CONFIG knob will kill the warnings for
everything, even the code that might not be as heavily audited as
network and which doesn't really care much about the performance of
refcount operations.

So I'm actually in favour of _nocheck variants, if we can show the need
for them. And I like your idea of being able to dynamically switch them
back to full debug as well.

But I would feel a whole lot better about the entire thing if we could
measure their impact. It would also give us good precedent to whack
other potential users of _nocheck over the head with -- show numbers.

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[PATCH 00/17] net subsystem refcount conversions Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 02/17] net: convert neigh_params.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 10/17] net: convert in_device.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 12/17] net: convert unix_address.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 14/17] net: convert inet_frag_queue.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 01/17] net: convert neighbour.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 11/17] net: convert netpoll_info.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 18:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-16 18:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-16 20:20 +0100
          RE: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-17 08:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 17:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-03-18 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-19 02:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 16:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-21 21:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 22:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-21 23:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-22 01:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 03:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 15:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 16:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-22 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-22 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-03-20 15:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-03-20 14:50 +0100
                RE: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-03-20 15:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-20 15:30 +0100
                RE: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-03-20 16:10 +0100
  [PATCH 05/17] net: convert sk_buff_fclones.fclone_ref from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 15/17] net: convert net.passive from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 16/17] net: convert netlbl_lsm_cache.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 09/17] net: convert ip_mc_list.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 04/17] net: convert sk_buff.users from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 08/17] net: convert sk_filter.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/17] net: convert sk_filter.refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> - 2017-03-16 17:10 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 08/17] net: convert sk_filter.refcnt from atomic_t to  refcount_t "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-17 09:20 +0100
  [PATCH 17/17] net: convert packet_fanout.sk_ref from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 06/17] net: convert sock.sk_wmem_alloc from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH 13/17] net: convert fib_rule.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100

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